It’s been well documented that people around former President Donald Trump advised him to do something to quell his supporters as they stormed the Capitol last Jan. 6. Instead, Trump made it worse, tweeting at 2:24 p.m. that “Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what was necessary.” The …
Read More »Trump Finds a New Autocrat to Suck Up To in Video Appearance at Europe's CPAC
Budapest, HUNGARY — In a surprise appearance early Friday morning, former president Donald Trump videoconferenced into CPAC Hungary to praise the gathering, its organizers, and the country’s authoritarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Trump, who did his damndest to keep power in the U.S. despite losing the 2020 election, boasted that …
Read More »Jan. 6 Investigation Subpoenas 11 Behind Pre-Riot Rally
The House Select committee charged with investigating the events of January 6th has subpoenaed eight women and three men who helped coordinate the rally and march that preceded the Capitol attack. Last week, the House subcommittee issued its first round of high-profile subpoenas to members of Trump’s inner circle: former …
Read More »Trump Cancels His Struggling Personal Blog After Less Than a Month
Banned from every major social media platform and desperate for a new avenue through which to foist his delusional musings onto the American public, former President Donald Trump last month launched his own “communications platform.” The American public wasn’t interested, and CNBC reported on Wednesday that the quasi-blog, dubbed “From …
Read More »Supreme Court Rules Trump Can't Stop Prosecutors from Seeing His Tax Returns
The Supreme Court cleared the way for New York City prosecutors to obtain former President Trump’s personal and corporate tax returns and other financial records, part of a lengthy battle Trump has waged to keep the information secret. Trump is the only president in recent memory to refuse to release …
Read More »Watch Liz Cheney Lay Waste to Donald Trump During Fox Interview
The day after the Wyoming Republican party voted to censure Congresswoman Liz Cheney over her vote to impeach Trump, Cheney went on Fox News and made it clear that she is not backing down on her criticism of the former president. Fox News Sunday host, Chris Wallace, asked the Wyoming …
Read More »Trump Used 'Apprentice'-Style Showdown to Decide Acting AG's Fate, Report Says
Former president Donald Trump reportedly formulated a plan with a Justice Department lawyer to try to force Georgia lawmakers to overturn the state’s results in the presidential election. According to department sources who spoke to the New York Times, Trump planned to remove then-acting attorney general Jeffrey A. Rosen and …
Read More »Late-Night Hosts Bid a Not-So Fond Farewell to Trump on His Final Full Day in Office
Late-night hosts across the board marked President Donald Trump’s final full day in office by recapping the insanity of the past four years and trying to parse what Trump’s legacy may be. On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert opened by recounting some of the “highlights of [Trump’s] lowlights”: There was …
Read More »Proud Boys Channels Are Exploding on Telegram
In light of mass deplatforming on big tech social platforms like Twitter, as well as the right-wing social network Parler doing dark on Sunday night, everyone from casual Trump supporters to far-right militants are flocking to alternative social networks such as the encrypted messaging apps Telegram and Signal. On Tuesday, …
Read More »A Guide to the People and Organizations That Have Abandoned Trump Since the Insurrection
President Trump has had a rough go of it since inciting a deadly mob to storm the Capitol and overthrow democracy last week. He’s been suspended from Twitter, he’s staring down a second impeachment, and his approval rating is at an all-time low. On Monday, however, he received the most …
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